Kinky's in for Ag Commish

[PDittie]

As a Democrat. Running on weed.

I say let him run, and here's why.

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2013/10/kinkys-in-for-ag-commish.html

[Gothmog]

1. Kinky needs to get out of the way

Kinky is in this race for himself

[PDittie]

2. He always is.

That's different from whom, how?

There's no altruism in politics.

[TexasTowelie]

3. From the Dallas Morning News:

Texas singer and perennial candidate and cigar salesman Kinky Friedman says he’ll intends to run for Texas agriculture commissioner. Friedman says he’ll enter the Democratic primary. Until Wendy Davis entered the race, he was considering running for governor. But he believes her decision to seek the top job will be a boost for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. The Texas Tribune initially reported his announcement. The Kinkster ran for governor as an independent in 2006 and for agriculture commissioner as a Democrat in 2010, where he lost in the primary.

In August 2012, Friedman told me that incumbent Rick Perry was vulnerable and that he was considering challenging him. He said Perry has embarrassed the state and has rewarded wealthy interests at the expense of cash-strapped Texans worried about their health care and their children’s schools. Perry is not running for reelection. Last year, Friedman’s remarks mirrored Davis’ campaign strategy this year, in which she says Texas should be using its economic success to spend more on public schools. Said Friedman: “Perry has created a state that’s first in business climate and 49th in education. What’s wrong with that picture?”

Any Democrat on the ballot faces an uphill climb. The party haven’t elected a statewide political candidate since 1994. In his initial run for governor, the author of They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore was highlighted by one-liners. But Friedman said he would be a more serious and substantive candidate. These days, the cosmic cowboy is reading Churchill.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/kinky-friedman-wants-to-run-for-agriculture-commissioner-on-wendy-davis-ticket.html/

[johncoby2]

4. Kinky has and always will be a fucking idiot

His base is dim witted half breeds that have never voted before and never will again after, if they vote in the primary.

*&^damn freak show

[PDittie]

5. Hey I thought

we weren't supposed to bash Democrats on this board...

[johncoby2]

6. He is a Kisha Rogers Democrat

And that is really screwed up

[efhmc]

7. This man is no Democrat. Look at the numbers in 2006 when he ran as an

" Independent". If he is a Democrat why didn't his votes go to Chris Bell. We would then have gotten rid of Perry or at least had a much better chance of winning.
He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.

Republican Perry 1,716,803 39.03
Democratic Chris Bell 1,310,353 29.79
Independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn 797,577
Independent Richard “Kinky” Friedman 546,869

I can't stand this freak.